MiFID II

AQMetrics hosted its latest Dublin MiFID II meetup last week, just as the countdown to implementation has turned to the number of weeks and days remaining – rather than months. Co-hosted with Brown Brothers Harriman, the event brought the Dublin … More

Following the success of our inaugural London MiFID II meetup in July, AQMetrics hosted a second event in late September to work through some of the key issues in advance of the 3 January 2018. The event once again brought … More

By Steve Barnes, VP of Technology, AQMetrics. Following the recent changes to mandatory transaction reporting (TR) being introduced under MiFID II, there are now a number of vital new reporting obligations which the markets must rapidly become familiar with. Yet as was … More

On 3 January 2017, the new MiFID II regime will come into force. This wide-ranging piece of legislation covers retail and wholesale investment firms and trading venues and may affect a significant number of the business activities of investment firms … More

The European Parliament voted today to formally endorse the political agreement on a Regulation on insider dealing and market manipulation (i.e. market abuse) to tackle market abuse more effectively, subject to alignment with the final political agreement on MiFID II … More

The Irish Presidency has put forward new compromises for MiFID II and its attendant regulation (MiFIR) by inserting text that requires the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) to define ‘liquidity fragmentation’ in a regulatory technical standard that could be … More

It is becoming increasingly unlikely that the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II and the European Market Infrastructure Regulation will be collated into a single piece of legislation. With technical standards in EMIR signed off in February and MiFID II’s progress slowed by the debate on … More

One of the issues facing your firm today is that MiFID II is a work in progress and is still subject to much change before it is signed off. However, with a likely implementation date of late 2014 or early … More